journal article·2025-03-28Open access

Supervised Blockchain Anonymous Transaction Model Based on Certificateless Signcryption

Wenbao Jiang, Jin Ding, Haibao Zhang

Applied Sciences· Volume 15· Issue 7

Abstract

In response to the issues of high transaction transparency and regulatory difficulties in blockchain account-model transactions, this paper presents a supervised blockchain anonymous transaction model based on certificateless signcryption aimed at ensuring secure blockchain transactions while minimizing both computational and communication overhead. During the transaction process, this approach utilizes certificateless public key signcryption without bilinear pairs to generate anonymous user identities, achieving strong anonymity of user identities and confidentiality of transaction amounts. It employs the Paillier homomorphic encryption algorithm to update transaction amounts and uses the FO commitment-based zero-knowledge proof scheme to validate transaction legality. Additionally, adopting a publicly verifiable secret threshold sharing scheme for hierarchical regulatory authority reduces the security risk of a single regulator storing the regulatory key. This model not only meets the privacy and timely update requirements of account-based blockchain transactions but also effectively regulates abnormal transactions. Rigorous security analysis and proofs demonstrate that this model possesses excellent anonymity, traceability, forward security, and backward security. When compared to similar schemes, the computational cost is reduced by at least 33.18%, effectively fulfilling the requirements for security.
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Research context

OpenAlex topics: Cryptography and Data Security · Internet Traffic Analysis and Secure E-voting · Privacy-Preserving Technologies in Data

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Affiliations

Department of Information Security, Beijing Infomation Science and Technology University, Beijing 102206, China

Funding

National Key R&D Program of China

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